Crossword-Solution: ALEA 4 letters, 58 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Then returning to the gaming table, he exultingly exclaimed that he had never made a better throw!(31) On another occasion, after having condemned to death several Gauls of great opulence, he immediately went back to his gambling companions and said:--'I pity you when I see you lose a few sestertii, whilst, with a stroke of the pen, I have just won six hundred millions.'(32) (31) Exultans rediit, gloriansque se nunquam prosperiore alea usum.

There is likewise some resemblance between the court and the game of dice, as the poet observes:— “Sic ne perdiderit non cessat perdere lusor, Dum revocat cupidas alea blanda manus;” which, by substituting the word _curia_ for _alea_, may be applied to the court.

Pausanias, afraid to face the public indignation of the Spartans took refuge in the temple of Athena Alea at Tegea; and being condemned to death in his absence, only escaped that fate by remaining in the sanctuary.

This manger of Mardonios was dedicated by the Tegeans as an offering in the temple of Athene Alea, 78 but all the other things which they took, they brought to the common stock of the Hellenes.

And these fetters with which they had been bound were preserved even to my own time at Tegea, hanging about the temple of Athene Alea.